Sunday, March 25, 2012

Retail spending strong in Palmerston North

Foreign exchange-broker FXCM bleeds from retail punters' losing streak
The Australian
The same may be true for FXCM, a foreign-exchange broker that mainly serves retail customers. In each of the last four quarters, more than 70 per cent of FXCM's US accounts were unprofitable for those trading them. As a broker, FXCM earns money each ...
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Retail spending strong in Palmerston North
Voxy
"We have seen the retail sector as an area of strength for us, and these figures show an increase in the level of outsiders visiting our city to shop." Across the country the rate of growth in international card spending has been decreasing since Rugby ...
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City Council Supports Law to Ban Major Retail Chains in Chinatown
Patch.com
The Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously Friday to draft a law that could effectively ban major retail chains from opening in Chinatown. It would not block a controversial Walmart grocery store in an existing building permitted late Thursday.
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CoStar Group: Fitness craze drives leasing market
Washington Post
It turns out that gyms were among the most active retailers leasing space throughout the Washington region in 2011. Approximately 20 percent of retail leases signed last year for 20000 square feet or more were inked by fitness centers.
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Genworth Targets Retail Reverse Mortgage Growth, Hires Six New Managers
Reverse Mortgage Daily
Genworth Financial Home Equity Access today announced it has hired six new retail sales managers in an effort to drive growth of its retail reverse mortgage channel. "Our Sales Managers will play a critical role in driving the successful growth of our ...
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New Online retailer Oak Furniture King announces Search Engine Optimisation ...
PR Web (press release)
New Online retailer OakFurnitureKing.co.uk today announces Search Engine Optimisation and Google Adwords as the online marketing method to promote the new website to UK consumers. Google is the place to be, the high street is struggling massively at ...
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Philippines may cut Q2 bond auction size after retail debt sale
Gulf Times
The Southeast Asian nation sold a record 179.8bn pesos of 15- and 20-year retail bonds in February. "There may be a bias for less auction volume," Tan said in an interview yesterday during a meeting of the Fund Managers Association of the Philippines ...
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50% of passenger cars now sold run on diesel
Times of India
NEW DELHI: Riding on the lower retail price of fuel, diesel automobiles for the first time ever surged ahead of petrol models in December last year, capturing more than 50% of the passenger vehicle market comprising cars, SUVs and utility vehicles.
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Shoppers Stop: Investors with a two-year horizon can consider buying the stock
Economic Times
Apart from the Shoppers Stop stores, it has five specialty retail formats like Mothercare (baby care), Home Stop (home furnishings), Crosswords (books & music), Estee Lauder (cosmetics), and Mac (cosmetics). It is also present in the hypermarket space ...
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Harrods will not be able to open in India
Livemint
He talked passionately about the 150-year-old, 1 million square feet retail space in Knightsbridge that once sold a man in Africa a zebra, which has a doggy treadmill that faces a television playing Scooby Doo, a 150-inch television and a dress code ...
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Revised FBA expected to impose tighter controls
The Nation
Retail and wholesale busi-nesses are likely to face tighter controls under the Foreign Business Act of 1999 once the Commerce Ministry completes a review of the law for the first time. "We are revising the law to keep it updated and increase regulating ...
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